Day: January 9, 2019

Antero Resources, a “pure play” driller focused on wet gas drilling in the Marcellus/Utica region, released its 2019 capital budget and production “guidance” (estimates) yesterday. We found some interesting things in the press release and accompanying slide presentation.Continue reading

Artists rendering of ACP Buckingham County compress station (click for larger version)

Finally a little good news for Dominion Energy’s 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline project: The Virginia State Air Quality Board voted yesterday 4-0 to approve a compressor station for the pipeline in Buckingham County.Continue reading

This is so cockamamie: Build a pipeline across the Canadian province of Quebec, a province that has outlawed fracking and shale drilling, in order to flow natural gas that IS fracked from shale thousands of miles away, so it can be exported from an LNG facility on Canada’s East Coast.Continue reading

When the radical left repeatedly loses court cases, they put on their arrogant “civil” disobedience clothes and pronounce they are engaging in the age-old American practice of resisting an unethical practice or situation. Is it time for Exxon Mobil to do the same?Continue reading

ORNL researcher Joanna McFarlane, prepares to test a sample with the IMAGING beamline at the High Flux Isotope Reactor. (Image credit: ORNL/Genevieve Martin)

The process of fracking (hydraulic fracturing) of shale uses water, a LOT of water, forced into small cracks in order to force those cracks open and allow the gas and oil to escape. What if you could use far less water (and chemicals) by first bombarding the rock with sound waves?Continue reading

What do fossil fuels, capitalism, industrialization and free speech have in common? They’re all under attack by the radical left, and we’re in danger of losing the fight to preserve them–and our way of life.Continue reading

Shale, pipelines bringing jobs to West Virginia; Peoples announces commitment to reduce methane emissions by 50% in Pittsburgh; Scott Rotruck joins Orion Strategies’ Pittsburgh office; AOC and green Hulk reveal the fractivist playbook; U.S. drilling permits finish strong in 2018, but start slow in 2019; Go public on a blank check? It can work if you’re an energy star; Record-breaking year for LNG World News with almost 1 million visitors; Saudi Arabia potentially eyeing U.S. LNG investment.Continue reading